Al-Qaeda in Yemen says France now #1 enemy in “war on Islam”

This is because the cartoons are the worst thing. The U.S. may have killed Awlaki and bin Laden, and conducted what Ibrahim al-Rubaish probably thinks of as “wars against Islam” in Iraq and Afghanistan, but the U.S. has indeed been weakened in recent years. Weakened to the extent that France is a more formidable military power? No, weakened in the sense that the U.S. mainstream media is already largely submitting to Islamic blasphemy laws (not publishing the Muhammad cartoons — and remember also that the President said, “The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam”), while in France they’re still publishing them. For al-Qaeda in Yemen, cartoons of Muhammad are the worst thing. The freedom of speech is the worst thing.

Dubai (AFP) – The ideological leader of Yemen-based Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) said Friday that France had surpassed the United States as the top enemy of Islam.

With the “weakening” of the United States in recent years, France has replaced America in the “war on Islam,” Ibrahim al-Rubaish said in an audio message published by AQAP’s media arm on YouTube.

US intelligence agencies consider AQAP to be the most dangerous branch of the jihadist network.

One of the group’s ideologues, Nasser bin Ali al-Ansi, has claimed in a video that AQAP was behind the January 7 attack on French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo that left 12 people dead.

Cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed published by the magazine have angered many Muslims.

Western governments say it remains unclear if AQAP directly orchestrated the attack on the weekly, although they do believe one or both of the attackers, brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi, spent time with jihadists in Yemen.

AQAP was formed in 2009 after a merger between militants in Yemen and Saudi Arabia.

Rubaish on Friday urged attacks on the West, singling out France.

He also called on Muslims to target, “without consulting anyone”, those who mock the Muslim prophet….

Ibrahim al-Rubaish and his supporters would do better to return home to their families and work hard to strengthen their communities by building schools, hospitals and civil institutions for a better and happier life. It is not too late for them to see the error of their ways and to appreciate how they are throwing their valuable lives away in the ruinous flames of war. French society is one of the human success stories in our modern era and I’m sure that the people of Yemen could forge a vibrant link with French Civilisation in a future without terror and blackmail. To glory in violence is to debase oneself and this is the course that Ibrahim and company are currently pursuing. Once the French people are mobilised in self defence and engage in an intelligent counter offensive, they will lead Europe in reasserting its modern identity and freedoms.

“Ibrahim al-Rubaish and his supporters would do better to …strengthen their communities by building schools, hospitals and civil institutions for a better and happier life”

They know that themselves, but this a UTOPIAN, SUPREMACIST IDEOLOGY.

The goal is a ‘good death’ and a ‘good afterlife’. ‘Good’ is decided first by killing non-Muslims, then drinking wine and having sex with slaves for eternity as a reward.

Islam is delusional ideation.

Before they will do what you want, they must be deprogrammed from this Death Cult, not a little, but completely. They must see that Islam has no provenance and it is likely the fabrication of the caliphs for political usefulness.

Dear Mortimer, your analysis seems very close to Ali Sina’s thinking and of course he is one of the champions in the field. As you are no doubt aware, the Jihadis regularly read the posts on various web sites including Jihad Watch and so some of my comments are intentionally pitched in their direction in the hope, perhaps vain hope, that some sense of reality might find its way through to a few of these people. I’m sure your absolutely right that Al Qaida in Yemen, ISIS and a score of other Jihadist terrorist outfits are highly delusional and that they draw their inspiration from brutal and cultish ‘sacred’ texts most notably the Quran; nonetheless some attempt to speak to them as human beings is worthwhile as the storm clouds continue to gather because when the storm breaks and a concerted counter offensive begins we will have the unhappy task of eliminating and permanently imprisoning an awful lot of these tragically fanaticised and brittle people. If France becomes the principle focus of their terror in the coming months then the French people will champion the European cause to fight and regain its modern freedoms and human dignity.

Muslims have had their own countries for years- and have done little in what you say ( build schools, etc)–Look at Pakistan- independent since 1948- same basic time as Israel- with more people. See which has more schools; more doctors; more publications; more literacy.

Muslims love to kill people- hopefully mostly other Muslims.

Been that way for generations.

besides, they treat their women as 2nd 9or lower) class citizens- and mothers are the ones who (in normal societies) are those who nurture the little children.

Even as Muslims increase their campaign of mass homicide in Europe, the dimmi leftist governments will give the Muslims cover and treat ‘Islamophobia’ as a greater threat- and arrest those who resist Islam.

What will it take for western governments to wake up and openly admit that Islam is dangerous, and opening the floodgates of massive Islamic immigration into their countries is suicide?

I realize that voting is mostly an illusion, but we should continue to vote out any politician who supports the Jihadist or Sharia in any way. Vote them out and voice your opinion until they are afraid that they will be voted out and consequently lose their bribe money.

Our forefathers fought to their deaths, rather than give up their freedom. Our freedom is currently at stake from Islam and from within.

I posted to another JW post- but was never put in– what (in my view) it would take to wake up the western governments and people is for a leader to be murdered by Muslim terrorists.

in the US 911 did it- for a brief time. I doubt that the London and Spanish transportation bombings (and in Britain the murders of the soldier and the woman in her garden, not to mention rapes etc. have done anything 9 to raise British thoughts about Muslims and terrorism).

In France, a short couple of weeks, and the government already is caving in.

“He also called on Muslims to target, “without consulting anyone”, those who mock the Muslim prophet….” -Ibrahim al-Rubaish

Compare that command with Sharia law:

““There is no indemnity obligatory for killing a non-Muslim (harbi) at war with Muslims.” -Reliance of the Traveller, o4.17, p.593”

Most Westerners are unaware that every single Muslim is authorized to be a vigilante murderer of blasphemers. There are about one billion Sunnis Muslims who may murder cartoonists if they wish to do so. No fatwa is necessary.

(Reuters) – An Egyptian court on Saturday banned the armed wing of the Palestinian group Hamas and listed it as a terrorist organization.

The ruling came days after the country faced some of the bloodiest attacks on security forces in years.

Hamas is an offshoot of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood which the authorities have also declared a terrorist group and have repressed systematically since the army ousted one of its leaders, Mohamed Mursi, from the presidency in 2013.

It was stupid to continue taunting Islam, and moronic to do it afte the first terror attack. In life just because we can do or say something does not mean that we should. The co-founder of Charlie castigated the editor for being so pompous and causing the deaths of employees. While I don’t go that far, it is clear that the editor failed to think about others’ safetyy and was intransigent in being as offensive to Islam as possible.

Your approach would lead to the eventual death of freedom, which is exactly what Islam wants. Remember, Islam is never satisfied unless it gets everything and often not even then. The next best thing to crushing evil, and Islam is evil, is mocking it. Does this come with danger? Of course. But the alternative is far worse. Your approach also has the effect of blaming the victims and not the true perpetrators.

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